Nick Oberthaler
News:
February 7 – March 15, 2025
Nick Oberthaler (Group Show), Sequence, Beige, Brussels (BE)
Nick Oberthaler
#000000 (Schwarz) – #FFD700 (Gold) – #228B22 (Waldgrün)_8, 2024
Installation view
Kulturhauptstadt Europas Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024
© Edwin Husic
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Open #10), 2024
Acrylic on paper on canvas
50 × 40 cm
All images courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul ©️ Nick Oberthaler / Bildrecht, Wien 2024, Photos: Ulrich Ghezzi
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Cloud_#1), 2024
Acrylic on canvas
41 × 33 cm
All images courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul ©️ Nick Oberthaler / Bildrecht, Wien 2024, Photos: Ulrich Ghezzi
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (LL_BI_#02), 2024
Acrylic on canvas
41 × 33
All images courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul ©️ Nick Oberthaler / Bildrecht, Wien 2024, Photos: Ulrich Ghezzi
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (liminal landscape), 2023
Installation view, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (AT)
©️ Nick Oberthaler, Bildrecht Wien, 2023
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (liminal landscape), 2023
Installation view, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (AT)
©️ Nick Oberthaler, Bildrecht Wien, 2023
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (liminal landscape), 2023
Installation view, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (AT)
©️ Nick Oberthaler, Bildrecht Wien, 2023
Nick Oberthaler
#61 BF 22_2_23, 2023
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Nick Oberthaler
#60 BF 22_2_23, 2023
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Nick Oberthaler
#58 BF XII 22_2_23, 2023
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Nick Oberthaler
#64 BF 22_2_23, 2023
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Nick Oberthaler
#50 BF XII 22, 2022
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Nick Oberthaler
#52 BF XII 22, 2022
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Nick Oberthaler
#51 BF XII 22, 2022
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Nick Oberthaler
#55 BF XII 22, 2022
Acryl auf Papier
10,5 × 14,8 cm
Samuel Richardot "Int'ubagu" (with Nick Oberthaler & Clément Rodzielski), 2020
Musée d'art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, Rochechouart, France
Photography: Aurélien Mole, Courtesy of the artists, Layr, Vienna and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Open #5), 2021
Acrylic on paper on canvas
50 × 40 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Open #7), 2021
Acrylic on paper on canvas
50 × 40 cm
Seilerstaette
M_O_B
Nick Oberthaler
June 26 – September 7, 2019
Nick Oberthaler
M_O_B, 2019
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Nick Oberthaler
M_O_B, 2019
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Nick Oberthaler
M_O_B, 2019
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Mike Zahn, (Review) Nick Oberthaler M_O_B at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, in: henrimag (2019)
Nick Oberthaler
O.T. (EXIT EXIT), 2019
Acrylic and gesso on cotton
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
O.T., 2019
Acrylic and gesso on cotton
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
O.T. (Frankfurter Rundschau 3.8.16/Generation Abwärts), 2016-2019
UV print and acrylic on blended fabric
Nick Oberthaler
O.T., 2019
Acrylic and gesso on linen
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
O.T. (OS-OS-OS-OS-SO-S), 2019
Acrylic and gesso on cotton
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
O.T. (DECOY), 2019
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2019
Acrylic and gesso on canvas
60 × 40 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (SOS #1), 2018
Acrylics on canvas
60 × 40 cm
Nick Oberthaler
O.T. (EXIT), 2019
Acrylic and gesso on paper
40 × 30 cm
Nick Oberthaler
O.T. (M_O_B #3), 2019
Acrylic and gesso on paper
40 × 30 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Sequel, 2019
Installation view
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Nick Oberthaler
Set de table, 2018
Installation view
VIS, Hamburg
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Topology), 2018
Acrylics on canvas
160 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Topology, 2018
Installation view
Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich
Nick Oberthaler
Distinct Oscillations Revisited, A project in collaboration with Wilfrid Almendra, 2018
Installation view
Adelaide, Marseille
Nick Oberthaler
Distinct Oscillations Revisited, A project in collaboration with Wilfrid Almendra, 2018
Installation view
Adelaide, Marseille
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Distinct Oscillations Rev. / Marquette France Bleu), 2018
Cutouts, marker and ballpoint pen on vinyl banner
80 × 80 cm
Collector’s Chronicle, (Interview) In the Studio, in: The Collector’s Chronicle 4 (May 2017)
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (VdS3), 2017
Gesso and acrylics on linen on stretchers
185 × 60 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Witness the change #2), 2017
Gesso and acrylics on linen on stretchers
185 × 60 cm
Nick Oberthaler featuring Nico Vascellari
CABRIO, 2017
Installation view
Layr, Rome
Nick Oberthaler featuring Nico Vascellari
CABRIO, 2017
Installation view
Layr, Rome
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (comfortable cut #2), 2017
Gesso and acrylics on canvas/linen
185 × 85 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (EXits, EXceptions, EXpressions, EXcuses), 2016
Gesso and acrylics on linen on stretchers
245 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Art Club #12/Folies d'hiver, 2016
Installation view
Villa Medici, Rome
Nick Oberthaler
Not yet titled, 2016
UV print and acrylics on cotton-canvas
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Generation of Decay), 2016
UV print and acrylics on cotton-canvas
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Eventuality, 2016
Installation view
Traklhaus, Salzburg
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (EX/proposal), 2016
Primer, gesso and acrylics on aluminium
200 × 120 cm
Nick Oberthaler
I can see the whole room! ...And there’s nobody in it!, 2016
Installation view
Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Eventuality I), 2016
Primer, gesso and acrylics on HDF panel/wooden frame
180 × 60 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Distinct Features of Fast Oscillations in Phasic and Tonic Rapid Eye Movement, 2015/16
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Nick Oberthaler
Distinct Features of Fast Oscillations in Phasic and Tonic Rapid Eye Movement, 2015/16
Installation view
Layr Seilerstaette, Vienna
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2015
Xerox on gypsum board
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2015
Acrylic on aluminium
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2015
Acrylic on aluminium
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2015
Acrylic on aluminium
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
No Subject No Image No Taste No Matter No Grace No Style, 2015
Installation view
Bianca d'Alessandro, Copenhagen
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Grid), 2015
Protection foil, ink and matte varnish on aluminium
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Blind/The Decay), 2015
UV-print on aluminium
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Pièce dérivée, 2015
Installation view
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris-Marais
Nick Oberthaler
Pièce dérivée, 2015
Installation view
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris-Marais
Nick Oberthaler
Pièce dérivée, 2015
Installation view
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris-Marais
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (eventuality), 2015
Primer and acrylics on aluminium mounted onto stainless steel frame
80 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (ubi dubium ibi libertas), 2015
Primer, black gesso, acrylics on aluminium mounted onto stainless steel frame
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2014
UV print on aluminium
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (fading evidence), 2013
Primer, acrylics and colored papers on alucopan
180 × 100 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Eight proposals for a landscape), 2012
Ink, gouache and crayon on paper
165 × 110 cm
Nick Oberthaler
No Structured Narrative V, 2010
Wax crayon, Indian ink on paper
160 × 110 cm
(back side)
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2014
Primer, acrylics, photocopy and paper collaged on aluminum
30 × 25 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2014
Primer, acrylics, paper, and magazine cut-outs collaged on aluminum
30 × 25 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled, 2014
Primer, gesso, acrylics, paper and magazine cut-outs collagaed on aluminum
30 × 25 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Negative shapes I), 2014
Latex print on cotton canvas
340 × 145 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Calculated Reserve, 2014
Installation view
Museo H.C. Andersen, Rome
Nick Oberthaler
Calculated Reserve, 2014
Installation view
Museo H.C. Andersen, Rome
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Shade), 2014
Photocopy, MDF wood, plexiglas mirror, metal stands
130 × 80 × 80 cm
Nick Oberthaler
Untitled (Calculated Reserves), 2014
Cut out fragments from magazines, MDF wood, glass, metal stands
130 × 80 × 80 cm
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Marie de Brugerolle, (Article)E PERICOLOSO SPORGERSI*, in: Quart Nr. 37/21 (July 2021) (translated by Kristina Lowis)
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Silvie Aigner, (Article) Konkrete Malerei, in: Parnass o4/2020 (December 2020)
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Mike Zahn, (Review) Nick Oberthaler M_O_B at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, in: henrimag (2019)
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Sophie Stadler, (Review) Nick Oberthaler – M_O_B: Search and Decode, in: artmagazine (July 2019)
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Collector’s Chronicle, (Interview) In the Studio, in: The Collector’s Chronicle 4 (May 2017)
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Brigitte Huck, (Review) Nick Oberthaler at Emanuel Layr Vienna. in: Artforum 54, No. 7 (March 2016)
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Franz Thalmair, (Review) Nick Oberthaler at Emanuel Layr Vienna, in: Artforum Online (Critics Picks)
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Goschka Gawlik, (Review) The Old, The New, The Different, in: art magazine (2016)
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Anne Katrin Fessler, (Review) Abstrakte Akkuratesse im Rotlicht, in: Der Standard (January 2016)
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Flavia Mattiti, (Review) Nick Oberthaler, in: arte e critica 79 (November 2014)
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Matthias Dusini, (Review) Ohne Titel, in: Falter 17 (2012)
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Christoph Bruckner, (Essay) Abstraktion und ihr Kontext (2015)
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Pier Paolo Pancotto, (Catalogue text) Nick Oberthaler: after Hendrik, in: Exhbt.cat. Calculated Reserve (Rome 2014)
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Joanna Fiduccia, (Catalogue text) Cloud Study, in: Exhibit.cat. Nick Oberthaler: Zweifel und Gnade (Paris 2011/12)
Nick Oberthaler
*1981, Bad Ischl, Austria
lives and works in Vienna and Germany
Education and Teaching
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2000-04
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
École supérieure des beaux-arts Genève, Switzerland -
2020-24
Professorship for Painting (MA), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Solo and two-person Exhibitions
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2022
New Space Show, Layr, Vienna (AT)
Liminals, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)
Set de table #3, Classic Slim Fit Vienna Sets, Duo Show with Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, MAUVE, Vienna (AT) -
2021
Set de table #2, Duo Show with Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, L'Ours Bar, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
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2019
M_O_B, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Sequel, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (AT) -
2018
Topology, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich (CH)
Distinct Oscillations rev., in collaboration with Wilfrid Almendra, Adelaide, Marseille (FR) -
2017
Cabrio, featuring Nico Vascellari, Galerie Emanuel Layr Rome (IT)
Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam (NL) -
2016
Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg (AT)
Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich (CH)
Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam (NL) -
2015
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)
Distinct Features of fast Oscillations..., Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
No Subject No Image No Taste..., Bianca d‘Alessandro, Copenhagen (DK) -
2014
The Blackbird must be flying (with Thomas Julier), Centre d‘art bastille/CAB, Grenoble (FR)
Calculated Reserve Museo H.C. Andersen/Galleria nazionale d‘arte moderna, (curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto), Roma (IT)
Frankendael Foundation, (with Dieuwke Spaans), Amsterdam (NL) -
2013
Miart, solo presentation by Galerie Emanuel Layr, Milan (IT)
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2012
Point de Fuite, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam (NL)
{...}, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Eventuality of an attempt, KIOSK, Ghent (BE)